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"Many of the hundreds of Madison East High School students didn’t know why their teachers brought them to the union protests at the Wisconsin Capitol Tuesday. But they knew they were just happy to be out of class. See this raw video from today’s government union rally in opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s budget."-Breitbart (w/video)

You sure do, sweetie, and you obviously haven't had any up to this point.

The lynched Walker poster could be a recycled poster from a Madison anti-Bush protest. The figure is wearing a "W" shirt, and they simply could have blocked out the G-E-O-R-G-E before and the B-U-S-H after the Walker part.

Many of the letters from Wisconsin today have to do with violence: threats against Governor Walker and members of his administration, the increases in their security details, their worries about their spouses and children, and so on. I have heard from people closely connected to the threatened individuals. Their letters are hard to take.

The last few days have made quite clear that, if you cross the public-employee unions, you run risks: and not merely political risks (which are nothing).

The Joint Finance Committee was called back into session about 20 minutes ago. The bill will come out of committee tonight and go first to the Senate where the Republicans have a very slim majority. Later tomorrow the Assembly will vote.

These union folks are just wasting their time; the bill will pass unchanged tomorrow.

Go easy on the "I neen quality teachers" placard. It's perfectly demonstrative of what unionized labor produces; the kids can't spell, but look at the craftsmanship! It's what happens when seventh graders read at a third grade level, but teachers still insist we need more art classes.

"Invest" and believe in our students, and who knows! Maybe next time that placard of Walker being lynched will be made out of licorice rope and macaroni shells instead of boring old poster-board and markers.

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Carter/Hitler Images : This one is actually interesting because it has one picture of Pres. Carter, Carter from Hogan's Heroes doing his Hitler impression, and bizarrely, a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster of Bush.

Nixon/Hitler Images : At least one political cartoon equating the two, but still most pictures are either of Hitler or of Bush.

Total new business and job growth projections include:-- In Los Angeles, up to $7.6 billion per year in new business, including $4.3 billion per year in Gross Regional Product (GRP)growth and up to 55,000 jobs. -- In Chicago, up to $6.1 billion per year in new business, including up to $3.6 billion per year in GRPgrowth and up to 42,000 jobs. -- In Orlando, up to $2.9 billion per year in new business, including up to $1.7 billion per year in GRPgrowth and up to 27,500 jobs. -- In Albany, up to $2.5 billion per year in new business, including up to $1.4 billion per year in GRPgrowth and up to 21,000 jobs.

Which is why Republicans are against it of course. New business development in large cities that don't vote for them? No thanks!

That's the trouble with public sector unions -- it used to be the case that at least some of the union members would realize that if the corporation failed then they'd have no jobs. But the public sector unions assume that the state can never go broke.

Scott Walker is trying to tell them that they're wrong.

Lotsa luck with that, Scotty._______________

Oh, BTW, I really like that touch of civility, depicting Scott Walker as a lynch mob victim. I guess that goes with the union members having "not learned the simple art of living together as brothers"

The TA Union is staging a walk-out for all its members tomorrow. They've been plastering us with emails regarding the protests for the past several days and tonight they just sent us one urging us to cancel our classes tomorrow and to encourage our students to come with us to protest at the capitol.

WEAC is also urging ALL K-12 teachers in the whole state to call in tomorrow and Friday and to go to the capitol, if possible. Madison's public school district is considering canceling classes for the rest of the week.

...Seems like a roundabout way to get the private sector's support. But then, it doesn't really seem like they care all that much about it anyway, considering that the union has declared Walker's moves to be wholly unsupported by WI voters. (Funny, considering he just won a majority of votes. I guess when they say Wisconsin, they really mean Madison.)

No, k*thy, the losers are the people on the left side of center who are still at least nominally sane.

Because I'm going to treat them as being no different from the Scott Walker = Hosni + Hitler sign carriers, and the people who think lynching their governor is cool, and poltroons like garage.

They don't like it? Too bad. It seems to me that the Tea Party did a better job of shedding the crazies than the professional agitators are doing. When the union protesters reach the sanity and civility level of the Tea Partiers, then we can talk.

I'm a "political discourse should be raucous" sort of person, pretty much. Bush as Hitler was stupid but I'm pretty sure I never had a fainting spell over it. (The racist stuff directed at Condi and others was different.) Bush as Hitler. Bush as the Joker. Clearly hyperbole but worth pushing back.

Obama as Hitler. Obama as the Joker. And suddenly, quite suddenly, it's outright EVIL to be so disrespectful of the office of the president. Someone might be provoked to violence!

No, I don't suppose anyone *wins*, but it is sure hella funny to watch the ladies clutch their pearls.

Yes, garage, I also read a projection that high speed rail will run on unicorn farts.

The old "unicorn fart" defense. Man that one just never gets old. But sorry I'm more inclined to go with Forbes in this case, they seemed to go a little more in depth than "choo choo! boondoggle! unicorn farts!"

[...]Between 1992 and 2000, Japan implemented 10 separate spending stimulus packages in which public infrastructure investment was a major component. Excluding the 2000 program, for which final costs are not yet available, addtional spending on the infrastructure com ponent alone amounted to 30.4 trillion yen, or $254 billion at the current exchange rate.Cutting spending seems not to have deterred prosperity in most of the European countries that have done so since 1990, while the relative prosperity of the Japanese has been on the decline as government spending has advanced. After peaking at 86 percent of U.S. income in 1991 and 1992, Japanese income continually fell behind the U.S., and by 2000, Japan's per capita gross national income had fallen to 73.7 percent of that of the U.S. despite the increased spending stimulus in Japan during the 1990s and into the 2000s. This decline in relative performance reflects the fact that the Japanese economy grew at an annual rate of only 0.6 percent between 1992 and 2007. In 1991, only the United States, Austria, and Switzerland had higher per cap ita incomes than Japan. By 2006 (the most recent OECD numbers), Japan's per capita income was surpassed by Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, and the U.S.ConclusionAlthough the benefits of a costly, infrastructure-focused stimulus package based on massive government spending may be intuitively attractive, past evidence suggests that the impact of government spending programs that are intended to encourage economic growth is very modest and unlikely to enhance recovery or deter recession. As noted above, the Japanese government implemented such a program during the 1990s, and the consequence was two decades of economic stagnation. Less ambitious infrastructure stimulus pro grams have been implemented in the United States over the past few decades, and numerous independent and government studies have concluded that these programs had little impact on economic activity or jobs.[heritage.org]

Waiting for the mainstream media to cover a crowd of protesters comparing an elected official to Hitler. Oh, it'll be all over the news tonight right? It must be on Google News at least right? Cause of the "new civility" Barack asked for? Let me check. Be right back.

What the sick-out is trying to prove: "We teachers are vital, you should give in to our demands."

What the sick-out is actually proving: "We need to get rid of teachers' collective bargaining rights so that it's easy to impose contracts where we can fire them if they ever try stunts like this again."

My ten-year-old was part of the School District's Black History Month celebration tonight. Each school in the district presented some sort of program, one kindergarten, five elementary schools, two middle schools, and the high school.

It was a nice program but there was one sour spot. The principal of one of the elementary schools listed (and kids held up photos/images of) several blacks who made a difference, Crispus Atticus, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, MLK, Malcolm X, he also noted a Black Panther who had been killed, Al Sharpton, Barry "Change we can believe in", Michelle, and someone he called his good friend who was "up in Wisconsin supporting the workers in their struggles." I didn't get the guy's name, but I felt that was totally inappropriate for this program.

Check the Zombietime website for all the Hitler placards with Bush on them - and that went on for 8 years of protests by all the "progressives" like Code Pink and ANSWER and ACORN and the CPUSA. That is where the Hitler images started.